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COMBINED CORSET AND DRESS SHIELD.

No. 480,426. Patented Aug. 9, 1892.

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J. S. GOLDSMITH.

COMBINED CORSET AND DRESS SHIELD.

No. 480,426. Patented Aug. 9, 1892.

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v JOHN SIDNEY GOLDSMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED CORSET AND DRESS-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,426, dated August9, 1892.

Application filed May 25, 1892.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN SIDNEY GOLD- SMITH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of New York, in the State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Innprovement in Corsets and Dress-Shields, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to those articles of ladies wearing-apparelknown, respectively, as corsets and dress-shields; and it consists incertain novel features of construction, as hereinafter set forth andclaimed.

The objects of the invention are to render dress-shields more effectivefor the protection of ladies dresses against being wet and discolored byperspiration and the protection of the underclothing against beingstained by the dyes of dresses; to adapt the dress-shields to bepermanently attached to the corset, so as to be used therewith inconnection with different dresses and to provide for readily adjustingthe armpit shields as ,to height above the waist of the corset, so thatthey shall fit different wearers without multiplying sizes.

Two sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of a combined corset anddress-shield embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail face viewshowing one of the dress-shields on a larger scale. Figs. 3 aud t arerespectively face and sectional views showing a modified dress-shield,and Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional Views illustrating additionalmodifications.

Like reference letters and numbers indicate corresponding parts in theseveral figures.

The corset proper (represented at C) may be of any approved pattern andmake. The dress-shields D, of suitable water-proof material, areintended in all cases to be permanently attached to the corset at thefactory, and, considered as a whole, are necessarily of peculiarconstruction.

In all the several forms shown 1n the drawings each dress-shield Dcomprises an armpit-shield 7, which may be of the customary shape or anyapproved pattern, a flexible downwardly-extending connecting portion 8in continuation of the bddy-flap of the armpit-shield, which preventsthe perspiration from striking through between the armpit and Serial No.134,269. (No model.)

the corset, and, preferably, a body-shield 9, attached to the corset andintended to be of ample size to protect all those portions of the bodycovered by one-half of the corset which are at all liable to wet thedress unless so protected, and especially the side of the wearerdirectly below the armpit down to the waist or thereabout.

Different means for attaching the armpitshields '7 to the arms of thewearer are represented in Figs. 1 and 2 and Figs. 3 and 4, respectively.In Figs. 1 and 2 a narrow elastic strap 10 is looped to eyelets 11 atone edge of each armpit-shield and to hooks 12 which engage with eyelets11 at the opposite edge of said shield, and is provided withhook-andeyelet adjusting devices 13 14. above the armpit-crease 15. Inthe modification represented by Figs. 3 and at a cord or tape 16,threaded through like eyelets 11 11 and adjusted by tying its ends abovethe armpit-crease 15, takes the place of said elastic strap 10 and itsappurtenances.

Different means for adjusting the dressshield as to the height of thearmpit-crease 15 above the waist-line are also represented by said Figs.1 and 2 and Figs. 3 and l, respectively. In Figs. 1 and 2 a pair ofelastic tapes 17 are attached to the upper portion of each of theshields D, immediately below the armpit-crease, and provided attheirlower ends with hooks 18, which engage with vertical series ofeyelets 19 in the body-shield 9, or it may be in the corset, to take upany slack in a connecting portion 8 of maximum length after thearmpit-shields are attached to the arms, as above, or inserted into thesleeves which they are to fit. In Figs. 3 and 4 the body-shield 9 formsa pocket, open at its top 20, and the surplus of the connecting portionmay be tucked into this pocket, as in Fig. 4. Such pocket may, ifdesired, be of sufficient size to inclose the whole of the connectingportion, together with the armpitshield, so that the same corset may beworn with a low-necked dress or corset-cover.

In the preferred style (represented by Figs. 1 and 2) each dress-shieldD is a single piece of suitable water-proof fabricsuch, for example, asany of those now successfully used for thin armpit-shields. Ordinaryarmpitshields may alternatively be combined with connecting portions 8and body-shields 9, as illustrated by Figs. 3 and 4. In the arrange mentcommon to Figs. 1, 2, 3,and 4 the body shield 9 of each dress-shield isattached to the inside of the corset and serves to protect the latter aswell as the outer clothing. Alternatively the body-shield may beintroduced between the two thicknesses 21 22 of sewed corsets, as inFig. 5, or attached to the outside or the corset, as in Fig. 6. In thislastnamed arrangement the dress-shield D may be conveniently stitchedfast between the body of the corset C and the customary edging E at itstop. A woven corset is intended to be represented in Fig. 6; but thedress shield may be attached equally wellto the inside or the outside ofcorsets of any description.

Buckles or other known or improved adjusting devices may take the placeof the hooks and eyes represented at 13 14, and other like additionalmodifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having, thus described the said improvement, I claim as my invention anddesire to patent under this specification 1. A combined corset anddress-shield in whichthe body-flaps of a pair of armpit-shields areprovided with the flexible downwardlyextending connection portionssecured at bottom to the corset, and the dress-shields are furtherprovided with means for attaching the armpit-shields to the arms of thewearer, and means for adjusting said connecting portions for therequired height of each arm pitshield above the waist of the corset,substantially as hereinbefore specified.

2. A combined corset and dress-shield in which a pair of armpit-shieldsare provided with eyelets 11 11 at their back and front edgesrespectively, and with elastic straps 10, looped' to said eyelets 11 atback, and having hooks 12 for attaching and detaching the strap at saideyelets 11 in front, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

3. A combined corset and dress-shield in which the body-flaps of a pairof armpitshields have flexible downwardly-extending connecting portions,and the corset is further provided with body-shields secured thereto,said connecting portions and said bodyshields being provided,respectively, with elastic tapes 17, having hooks 18 at their free ends,and with vertical series of eyelets 19 to coact with said hooks,substantially as hereinbefore specified.

JOHN SIDNEY GOLD SMITH.

Witnesses:

K. MCCARTHY, E. GOLDSMITH.

